{"id":891,"date":"2014-10-17T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insideout.insidewp.test\/?p=891"},"modified":"2014-10-17T07:15:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T14:15:18","slug":"891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/2014\/10\/17\/891\/","title":{"rendered":"Why My Daughter is Dressed as a Lombax"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Tym first asked me if I would be willing to be the Middle School Staff blogger for Inside Out, he suggested possible ways that I could begin a blog post.\u00a0 One was \u201cSo, my husband is gaming again\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAgain?\u201d I retorted.\u00a0\u201cMore like still gaming or has become obsessed with yet another video game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, my husband Kevin proudly calls himself a gamer. And that\u2019s not all\u2014a \u00a0few weeks ago you may have noticed that he was featured on our ACS Facebook page<\/a> in a shameless bit of self-promotion before a public lecture at Trinity Western University marking his promotion to full professor in the department of Media and Communication. And he studies video games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Lombax\"The tagline for promoting his speech was \u201cVideo Games Matter.\u201d And, at our house, they really, \u00a0really do. We have plenty of discussions about how much gaming is OK (we tend to disagree on that one), which games are worth playing, and how much money he can spend on STEAM to buy new games.<\/p>\n

He is also taking it upon himself to make sure our three daughters buck the gender trends and are comfortable in the gaming world. Since the only video games I play are Geoguessr and Math apps that I am trying out for my classes, I\u2019ll leave that mostly up to him. In that area, at least, he seems to be succeeding. Hence, the Lombax<\/a> costume, so our youngest daughter could pretend to be a one of a kind cat-like alien who fights evil across the galaxy with a troop of comical sidekicks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At least it gives me a break from Elsa and Olaf.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it: new technologies change the world and raise new questions, and video games are certainly no exception. While my husband tends to write about secondary worlds and ways that we can find God in and through games (more shameless self-promotion\u2014he published a book last year called \u201cOf Games and God<\/a>\u201d and we can hook you up with a copy!), I am more interested in other sorts of game-related questions, like:<\/p>\n